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There’s a long road ahead to bring Europe’s “start-up darling” Berlin up to par with learning & and the web. Digital literacy and simple computational competencies are often lacking; and there’s no indication yet that Berlin schools will step to fill the gap.* There’s an…

A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car. — Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogata Urbanized is a documentary by Gary Hustwit about the future of designing cities. A…

Prompted by a filmmaker’s uninspiring suggestion to “crowdsource” footage, we had a good round of spontaneous chatter at ODC about: what motivates you to participate? Given how participation is now the metric driving all Mozilla Foundation projects, the topic of motiviation certainly deserves some reflection….

Thanks to @cyberdees for pointing out this Quora thread. Some really valuable insights from Robert Scoble on what make a great event and food for thought re: Mozilla Festival and other events in the pipeline. We’ll unpack this at OKCon and Wikimania Haifa. Scoble: The…

Hello! I’m Michelle Thorne.

I care about participation, grassroots organizing, mentoring, Free Culture and open practices. Oh, and karaoke. I'm based in Berlin.